What is responsive menu?

A responsive menu will automatically transform the regular horizontal site navigation into a responsive, mobile-friendly navigation menu for cross-platform websites and web apps.

Why you should use a responsive menu?

With the popularity of smartphones, more and more users browser website through mobile and tablet devices. And Google announced that Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking.

In order to provide a better user experience, you might need a responsive menu system for your websites or web apps accoss the devices and platforms.

The best responsive menu

In this blog post you will find a list of 10 best ResponsiveMenu Systems implemented in jQuery, Vanilla JavaScript, or even Pure CSS/CSS3. I hope you like it.

Stellarnav is a responsive dropdown menu plugin for jQuery that supports infinite levels of sub menus and auto switches to a small screen friendly toggle menu when the window width reaches a specified breakpoint.

Vanilla JS Responsive Menu Libraries:

A mobile-friendly responsive navigation system that uses CSS3 media queries to detect the screen size and transforms the regular horizontal navigation into a show / hide menu with a toggle button on small screens.

A Vanilla JavaScript responsive dropdown menu that will be converted into a hamburger toggle menu when the screen size is less than a breakpoint you specify in the CSS media queries. Smooth animation is based on CSS3 transforms and transitions.

A responsive navigation solution which uses input:checked pseudo selector to reveal a drawer menu sliding from the left or right hand side of the screen. You can change the breakpoint through media queries in the CSS.